May 5th, 2007

"If such men as having liberty to read and exercise themselves in God's holy Scriptures, and yet begin to get weary, because from time to time they read but one thing, I ask, why weary they not also every day to eat bread? Every day to drink wine? Every day to behold the brightness of the sun?"
- John Knox, quoted by Jasper Ridley in "John Knox" (p 238)

"Knox took his ideas of Church organization and moral discipline from Calvin, but differed from him completely on the question of resistance to authority."
- Jasper Ridley "John Knox" (p 255)